Bulk load capability for groups?

FormerMember

I have 2900 individual locations that I am setting up groups for.  Since NPM doesn't seem to have an object type for a location, creating groups seems to be the most straightforward way of lumping multiple devices together.  Fortunately, all the network devices at the site share a common address space, so defining membership is relatively easy using dynamic queries defined with NODE IP ADDRESS begins with 199.199.27. for example.  Is there a capability to take information from another database (contains site ID, mailing address, and assigned subnet) and bulk create/add both the groups and the dynamic queries?

Sohail.Bhamani

The only way to do this would be if the SolarWinds SDK (or api) provides verbs to create group objects.  You would then of course need to code a program that makes use of the api in order to call those verbs to do the actual work. 

As for those data you mentioned (site id, mailing address, and assigned subnet), you could create those as custom properties and then use the import/export feature to export the list of custom properties into Excel.  Once in Excel, you can then use Excel magic to merge the data which will then be imported back into Orion.  This will get the data in place for use in dynamic queries to auto-populate the groups.

Sohail Bhamani

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